25 April 2007
The Al Kobaisi Group has expressed interest in funding the BD200,000 Muharraq gate, said Muharraq Municipal Council Chairman Mohammed Jassim Hamada.
The new gate will be built at the entrance to Muharraq from the Shaikh Khalifa bin Salman causeway, Hamada told the Tribune yesterday.
He said the group said that the gateway funding would be complementary for the Governorate.
The Tribune learned from an informed source that the group plans to collaborate on many other projects coming up in Muharraq, in addition to entering into a land deal at Asry.
The design of the gateway is classical Arabic. Hamada said that once the discussions and the technical details, including project planning, are finalised, the work would be handed over to the Kobaisi Group, who are in the construction business.
It is hoped that the project will be handed over for construction by end of May or in June.
The new gateway, once completed, will be an attraction and remind people of the early days, with the ramparts being used by the guards and the main gate opening to let trade and business flow in.
Only here the ramparts will be used by pedestrians to cross over from one side of the road to the other.
The new gate points to more development expected to change the face of the old capital of Bahrain.
Hamada said that a BD18 million garden project, which will be constructed near the Bahrain International Airport, is soon to be handed over to the sponsors, a Kuwait-based firm.
In addition, old Muharraq town is to be redesigned and negotiations are underway with the concerned department of the University of Bahrain.
The Al Kobaisi Group has expressed interest in funding the BD200,000 Muharraq gate, said Muharraq Municipal Council Chairman Mohammed Jassim Hamada.
The new gate will be built at the entrance to Muharraq from the Shaikh Khalifa bin Salman causeway, Hamada told the Tribune yesterday.
He said the group said that the gateway funding would be complementary for the Governorate.
The Tribune learned from an informed source that the group plans to collaborate on many other projects coming up in Muharraq, in addition to entering into a land deal at Asry.
The design of the gateway is classical Arabic. Hamada said that once the discussions and the technical details, including project planning, are finalised, the work would be handed over to the Kobaisi Group, who are in the construction business.
It is hoped that the project will be handed over for construction by end of May or in June.
The new gateway, once completed, will be an attraction and remind people of the early days, with the ramparts being used by the guards and the main gate opening to let trade and business flow in.
Only here the ramparts will be used by pedestrians to cross over from one side of the road to the other.
The new gate points to more development expected to change the face of the old capital of Bahrain.
Hamada said that a BD18 million garden project, which will be constructed near the Bahrain International Airport, is soon to be handed over to the sponsors, a Kuwait-based firm.
In addition, old Muharraq town is to be redesigned and negotiations are underway with the concerned department of the University of Bahrain.
© Bahrain Tribune 2007
